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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Paperback - 2005

by Peter De Vries

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It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness-not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy-and it propels Slouching Towards Kalamazoo through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.

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  • Title Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
  • Author Peter De Vries
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2005-06-01
  • ISBN 9780226143897 / 0226143899
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.56 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: North Dakota
    • Sex & Gender: Masculine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons, Humorous fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005041753
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Peter De Vries (1910-1993), the man responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" and "Deep down, he's shallow," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit, and that dynamic is nowhere better seen than in his classics Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb. First published in 1982 and 1965, respectively, these novels reemerge with their sharp satire and biting pain undiluted by time.

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